Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley, ukulele chords

Published: 2010-02-04 18:00
Selection chords: Sofia Davis

Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm   Cm               Gm
Get up, stand up: donʼt give up the fight! 

Verse:
Cm                      Gm 
Preacher man, donʼt tell me, 
Cm                      Gm
Heaven is under the earth. 
Cm                Gm
I know you donʼt know 
Cm                    Gm
What life is really worth.
Cm                         Gm
Itʼs not all that glitters is gold; 
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Half the story has never been told: 
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So now you see the light, eh! 
Cm                        Gm
Stand up for your rights. come on! 

Chorus:
Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm   Cm               Gm
Get up, stand up: donʼt give up the fight! 
Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm   Cm                Gm
Get up, stand up: donʼt give up the fight! 

Verse:
Cm             Gm 
Most people think, 
Cm                      Gm
Great god will come from the skies, 
Cm                Gm
Take away everything 
Cm                    Gm
And make everybody feel high. 
Cm                         Gm
But if you know what life is worth, 
Cm                  Gm
You will look for yours on earth: 
Cm                   Gm
And now you see the light, 
Cm                        Gm
You stand up for your rights. jah! 

Chorus:
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! (jah, jah! ) 
Cm                Gm
Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! ) 
Cm                Gm
Donʼt give up the fight! (life is your right! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! (so we canʼt give up the fight! ) 
Cm                Gm
Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on! ) 
Cm                Gm
Donʼt give up the fight! (yeah! ) 

Verse:
Cm             Gm 
We sick anʼ tired of-a your ism-skism game - 
Cm                      Gm
Dyinʼ ʼnʼ goinʼ to heaven in-a Jesusʼ name, lord. 
Cm             Gm 
We know when we understand: 
Cm                      Gm
Almighty god is a living man. 
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You can fool some people sometimes, 
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But you canʼt fool all the people all the time. 
Cm             Gm 
So now we see the light (what you gonna do?), 
Cm                      Gm
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah! ) 

Chorus:
Cm              Gm 
So you better get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up! ) 
Cm                Gm
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! 
Cm                Gm
Donʼt give up the fight! (donʼt give it up, donʼt give it up! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up! ) 
Cm                Gm
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up!
Cm                Gm
Donʼt give up the fight! (get up, stand up! ) 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up!
Cm                Gm
Stand up for your rights! 
Cm              Gm 
Get up, stand up! 
Cm                Gm
Donʼt give up the fight!